Considering selling up

[mike_imperial]

This isn't a sales post! (At least not yet).

I've lost the love of turning, which is sad, but I started turning around 18 years ago as my first venture into woodworking and have done a LOT of all the things you can imagine from small things up to large hollow forms.

But I moved ever more into furniture making and while I find turning handy occasionally for that, I now find it doesn't float my boat and am thinking of selling up my big bowl lathe and all those bowl/hollowing tools and maybe downsizing to a capable midi lathe that takes up a lot less space but would do all I need for furniture and things, and it would make my limited workshop space a much more sensible layout (currently the massive planer thicknesser is floating awkwardly as it doesn't have a wall/space to live and always has to be moved around).

So the question really is, if I were selling up, what would be people's thoughts about doing it as individual items vs a 'whole bunch'. Is there much appetite for whole workshop sales? There's a lot of stuff for selling individually, a lot of it I wouldn't want to ship.

 

[Inspector]

If you sell as a whole you won't get nearly as much as by selling pieces. The upside of whole is it is done in one. Parts will take longer and you'll have to ship. Your other option is to find a mens shed or turning group and see if they want it all and hope they will pay something for it.

Pete

 

[Tris]

How much stuff do you need to keep for your next lathe? That may determine your best way forward.
Think the vacuum chuck and pump could make a good bundle if you don't need it in future, then probably just the lathe itself, and hollowing tools as separates